HRC Faculty Evaluators

Coleen Kivlahan, MD, MSPH

Advisor
Family Community Medicine

Coleen Kivlahan MD, MSPH is a family medicine physician and an experienced international expert and trainer in forensic medical evaluations of torture, ill-treatment and human rights violations. She served as Chair of the UCSF Health and Human Rights Initiative and was Co-Medical Director of the Human Rights Collaborative, providing pro-bono asylum evaluations with our medical school and legal partners.

Cristina Biasetto

Mental Health DIrector
Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Cristina Biasetto, LCSW, is the Mental Health Director of HHRI, a Licensed Clinicial Social Worker and clinical coordinator of the UCSF Trauma Recovery Center. She brings to the HHRI her expertise on psychological evaluations of persecution and torture survivors and her knowledge of trauma-informed care. She also contributes to the HHRI with her professional experience in the design, management, and implementation of psychosocial assistance programs for asylum seekers, refugees, and torture survivors.

Triveni Defries, MD, MPH

Executive Director, Health and Human Rights Initiative (HHRI)
UCSF Institute of Global Health Sciences

Triveni DeFries, MD, MPH, is the Executive Director of HHRI at the Institute of Global Health Sciences, the Medical Director of the Adult HRC and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at UCSF.  She previously served for several years as the Director of Education & Training for the UCSF HHRI. She studied Human Rights and Latin American Studies, completed an MPH in Global Health at Columbia University, and attended UCSF for medical school and residency in Internal Medicine.

Raul Gutierrez, MD, MPH

Pediatrics Co-Director
Pediatrics

J. Raul Gutierrez, MD, is a UCSF Associate Professor of Pediatrics focusing his efforts in immigrant health. He is the Co-Director of the Bridges Clinic for Immigrant Children at Zuckerberg San Francisco General as well as co-chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics Council on Immigrant Child and Family Health. He is part of a cross-bay team developing a Center of Excellence in Immigrant Child Health and Wellbeing at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals. 

William Martinez, PhD

Pediatric Mental Health Director
Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

William Martinez, PhD, is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco and Director of the Child and Adolescent Services clinic in the Division of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychiatry at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. He is currently the co-chair of the steering committee for the UCSF Health and Human Rights Initiative. He is also faculty in two APA-accredited internship programs at UCSF/ZSFG - the Multicultural Clinical Training Program and the Clinical Psychology Training Program.

Jess Ghannam, PhD

Advocacy Director
UCSF Institute of Global Health Sciences

Dr. Jess Ghannam is on the faculty in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and the Institute for Global Health Sciences in the School of Medicine at UCSF. His research areas include evaluating the long-term health consequences of war on displaced communities and the psychological and psychiatric effects of armed conflict on children. Dr. Ghannam has developed community health clinics in the Middle East that focus on developing community-based treatment programs for families in crisis.

Rebeccah Brusca, MD, MPH

Co-Associate Medical Director
Internal Medicine

Dr. Rebeccah McKibben Brusca is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and an academic hospitalist at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital (ZSFG). She graduated from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine before completing her residency training at the Johns Hopkins Hospital Osler Internal Medicine Program.

Zarin Noor, MD, MPH

Pediatrics Co-Director
UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland

Dr. Zarin Noor is a pediatrician at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland Primary Care clinic.  Her experience as a refugee from Afghanistan led her to an educational and career path focused on caring for immigrant families. She is the Director of International Clinic within the Primary Care clinic, which focuses on the medical care of immigrant and refugee pediatric patients. She teaches and mentors residents and medical students. Dr. Noor has a US Civil Surgeon designation and provides medical exams for immigration purposes.

Colin Buzza, MD, MPH, MSc

HS Asst Clinical Professor
Psychiatry

Naomi Schapiro, RN, PhD, PNP

Professor Emeritus (WOS)
Family Health Care Nursing

Monica Noriega, PsyD

HS Asst Clinical Professor
Psychiatry

Celeste Allen, MD

HS Clinical Professor
Pediatrics

Dr. Celeste Allen is a pediatrician who cares for children of all ages from birth to young adulthood. She has a particular interest in working with families who are under-resourced. She focuses on comprehensive care (care that addresses all of a patient's needs, in addition to physical ones). She is also committed to addressing social concerns that impact the lives of her patients and their families.

Allen earned her medical degree at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine. She completed a residency in pediatrics at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland.

Arthur Lande

ASC PHYSCN DIPLOMATE

Herbert Castillo Valladares, MD

Assistant Professor
Dermatology

Cameron Dietiker, MD

HS Assoc Clinical Professor
Neurology

Cameron Dietiker, M.D. is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the UCSF Department of Neurology where she treats people with movement disorders in the Movement Disorders and Neuromodulation Center at the Mt. Zion campus as well as the Memory and Aging Center at the Mission Bay campus.

Marianna Kong, MD

Assistant Clinical Professor
Family Community Medicine

Marianna Kong, MD serves as the Associate Director for Practice Transformation at the Center for Excellence in Primary Care at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), and is a faculty member in the Department of Family & Community Medicine. Dr. Kong leads practice coaching and the Clinic First initiatives at the Center for Excellence in Primary Care, which aim to disseminate best practices in primary care teaching clinic transformation.

Andrew Gross, MD

Clinical Professor
Medicine

I am the Rheumatology Clinic Chief at UCSF. I am responsible for all aspects of rheumatology clinical and teaching activities. I am committed to comprehensively aligning the rheumatology clinical program for ongoing success in all three of the traditional domains of academic medicine – clinical care, research and education.

Emmeline Sun

Clinical Social Worker Supv.